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The Financial and Consumer Services Commission of the Canadian province New Brunswick (FCNB) has issued a warning against the company Bitcoin-bank.io that claims to be a “cryptobank”, payment card solutions, wallet services and an opportunity to invest in ...

Belgium’s financial services and markets regulator FSMA, has published a document warning the public of the risks of trading in cryptocurrencies. “In recent weeks, a large number of new platforms offering all and sundry the chance to invest ...

The 16 Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges have reported 669 suspected money laundering cases between April and December 2017, says Nikkei Asian Review. The data was collected after the new legislation, requiring the exchanges to register with the Financial Services ...

The Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Coinsquare has teamed up with the payments processing platform Processing.com, announced the latter. The new partnership will enable Coinsquare to enable its customers to buy digital currencies with their credit or debit cards instantly. “We ...

The Dutch Public Prosecutor’s office accused an unnamed British national of laundering EUR 11.5 million through Bitcoin and demanded five years in prison for him, reports NLTimes. According to the prosecution, the man residing in Amsterdam has laundered ...

PornX, a blockchain project that aims to provide instant and anonymous payments for adult content, has launched its pre-initial coin offering (ICO) of the PornX coin. It is created as a decentralized ERC20 token on the Ethereum blockchain ...

Turkey should develop a blockchain infrastructure, launch its own “national bitcoin” – Turkcoin, regulate and set up a state-controlled cryptocurrency exchange, said former industry minister Ahmet Kenan Tanrikulu in a report, quoted by Al-Monitor. Tanrikulu is also the ...

Robinhood Crypto, the commission-free cryptocurrency trading service of Robinhood, the popular zero-fee stock trading app, has launched in five US states – California, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, and New Hampshire. Residents of those states can now buy and sell ...

Iran’s central bank has warned Iranian citizens of the high risks of investing in the volatile market of the cryptocurrencies and told them they “may lose their financial assets,” reports the site Ifpnews. The c-bank said it has ...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Jon Montroll, also known as Ukyo, founder of the now defunct cryptocurrency platforms BitFunder and WeExchange with fraud and making “false and misleading statements in connection with an unregistered ...